In this blog post we sat down with Tintri senior sales engineer, Gustavo Ceballos, to get his perspective on storage and his approach for arriving at the solution that best addresses his customers’ needs and solves their biggest problems. Hi…
KEY TAKEAWAYS VM Scale-out uses machine learning to optimize VM placement across multiple storage systems. An ensemble of predictive algorithms are used to accurately forecast the future space and performance requirements of each VM. Following the recommendations optimizes VM placement,…
KEY TAKEAWAYS With affinity threading, VMstore minimizes the number of transfers and remote access memory, making efficient use of CPUs to reduce resource impact and keep costs down. The VMstore EC6000 tops out at 645 TB and 320,000 IOPS in…
KEY TAKEAWAYS Growing service providers need to automate data management tasks and simplify and accelerate restores for cloud tenants. Tintri Global Center allows CloudItalia to orchestrate data management tasks. By simplifying restores using SyncVM, Clouditalia can instantly restore VMs and…
KEY TAKEAWAYS The Evaluator Group benchmarks the performance and usability of storage systems using virtualized workloads. You can buy access to the test, but you can’t buy the results (many providers that put their products through these paces choose NOT…
Virtualization has a problem. It’s raced ahead of the underlying datacenter infrastructure, and now the industry is trying to adapt. Many companies we speak with have aggressive plans to virtualize nearly all of their servers within the next year or…
Part one of this series. Storage A storage environment requires work from both sides of the links for proper operation: the server side and the storage management side. A flaw from either side can be bad for both sides at…
We all know the story: the physical servers in the data center model from years past were idle a lot of the time. In many instances, 80-90% of the server's time was idle. This reality led to the adoption of…
Now that SSD technology is at a point where it seems to be a desired component of nearly any array, regardless of its position in the stack, we seem to be hitting a “speeds and feeds” bump in the technology…